The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), a panel of jurists and doctors, had been tasked with investigating the disappearance of the students, who vanished during a visit to the southwestern city of Iguala.

However, after presenting their final fact-finding report on Tuesday, the experts said they would be leaving the country next week, as they had been unable to access the information they needed to continue their investigation.

The GIEI report stated that the failure to provide information for the investigation of atrocious events such as these must be investigated by the Prosecutor's Office.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told a morning press conference on Tuesday that his government would continue the investigation.

The college-aged students from Ayotzinapa disappeared on September 26, 2014, while traveling to attend a protest in Mexico City.

Most of the missing students were never found, and exactly what happened remains unknown.

Survivors of the original group said their buses had been stopped by armed police officers and soldiers who suddenly opened fire.

Bullet-riddled buses were later seen in the city's streets with shattered windows and blood.

In August 2022, a Mexican court issued at least 83 arrest warrants for people allegedly involved in the 2014 disappearance.

However, no one has been convicted in relation to the students' disappearance.

The long list of suspects includes dozens of military commanders, troop personnel, police officers, as well as administrative and judicial authorities, who were accused of "organized crime, forced disappearance, torture, homicide, and crimes against the administration of justice." The GIEI experts faced pressures and obstacles throughout the investigation, including a lack of information, secrecy, and hidden evidence.

The group was forced to leave the investigation in 2016 and was only invited back in 2020 by the new government of Mexico under President Obrador, who had made it a